There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!
I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.
You only get better by playing.
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.